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Definition of Drum up
1. Verb. Gather. "Drum up support"
Definition of Drum up
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To generate or encourage; to campaign for. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drum Up
Literary usage of Drum up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"KA Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down. There are
books of it, and, they say, very true ; but my Lord observes, ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"In New York they are called drummers, their business being to drum up recruits
to their corps of customers. In more quiet Philadelphia they are called ..."
3. The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes Christina Laut (1915)
"Wherever Clifford Sifton sent agents to drum up settlers trade agents were sent
to drum up markets. Then—as Sir Richard Cart- wright acknowledged—the ..."
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